Porn exercises this quite strong pedagogic power on how they actually have sex, to the point where they don't really see what it would mean to have sex outside the pornographic script. In my classroom basic an, my students spend a lot of time lamenting and the way in which they've been taught to have sex by the screen. And i think so thereis an important sense in which, in the age of internet porn, a lot of what someone like mc kinnan or dorken was warning about as has come true. Can good porn defeat bad porn?
What are the politics of sex? Incels, porn, sexual racism, the feminist sex wars, and more. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan on her new essay collection The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century.
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